Sunday, March 9, 2025

Mickey 17 - A Movie Having Very Unique Story and Strong Dark Humor from Bong Joon-ho

I have seen the trailer to this movie few times before and I thought it looked really interesting. So when it was finally released mid of the week, my wife and I decided to see it yesterday after we have a little get together earlier. OK, I'll just get to it then.

Brief Story Line

Story was set in the future where people had found an inhabitable planet called Niflheim which took 4.5 years to reach. An expedition led by politician Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo - The Adam ProjectNow You See Me 2 etc) and his wife Ylfa (Toni Collette - Juror #2Hereditary etc) was done to conquer the planet with many personnels including scientists, security agents like Nasha Barridge (Naomi Ackie - The End of the F***king World TV series, Blink Twice etc), pilot such as Timo (Steven Yeun - Nope, Beef TV series etc) and last but not least, an expendable Mickey (Robert Pattinson - The Batman, Tenet etc).

Saturday, March 8, 2025

The Monkey - The Pretty Awesome Adaptation of Stephen King's Short Story

Last night I decided to see one of the new movies released in Indonesian cinemas this week. It was a rare opportunity since during the fasting period, my office allowed all employees to leave earlier. Although it was a horror, my wife and I felt it would not be too scary for us as it was said to be comedy horror. All right then, why don't I just get to it.

Brief Story Line

In 1999, young twin brothers Hal and Bill (Christian Convery - Sweet Tooth TV series, Cocaine Bear etc) who were living with their mother Lois (Tatiana Maslany - She-Hulk: Attorney At Law TV series, The Other Half etc), found a Monkey toy left by their father and played with it. Unbeknownst to them, the toy somehow created an event that resulted to the death of someone close. Feeling it would be dangerous, they decided to hid it somewhere.

Monday, March 3, 2025

Demon City - A Very Dark and Violent Revenge-driven Movie Based on Japanese Manga

When I saw this movie in the Coming Soon section of Netflix and its cool looking poster, I was interested to give it a try. But as I was finishing another series, I only got the chance to watch this last night, 3 days after its release. So how was the film then? Let's find out more, shall we?

Brief Story Line

Shuhei Sakata (Toma Ikuta - Hanamizuki, Beyond Goodbye TV series etc) was a professional hitman who informed his handler Fujita (Taro Sugura - Tokyo Swindlers TV series etc) that he wanted to retire and live peacefully with his family. Unfortunately for him, a group of masked men murdered them and pinned the crime to Sakata by showing that he committed suicide.